Brendan Ahearn Suhr (born April 28, 1951) is an American basketball coach who is currently an assistant at

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. He is also a former assistant coach in the

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(NBA), most recently with the

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where he was also the former director of player personnel and scout. Suhr received his bachelor's degree from

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in 1973 and his master's degree in education administration from

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in 1979. He began his coaching career on the college level as an assistant at the

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, before moving to

for five seasons. Suhr was a longtime NBA assistant coach and worked on two NBA championship teams with the

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, in 1988-89 and 1989–90. From 1995 to 1997, Suhr was head coach for the Grand Rapids Mackers (later Hoops) of the

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. He was CBA Coach of the Year in 1996 for leading Grand Rapids to a 33–23 record and first-place finish in the Eastern Division. Grand Rapids went 32–24 and second in the CBA Eastern Division in 1996–97. Suhr was named an assistant on

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' staff at Stetson on May 15, 2019.

References

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